The related quote is the one part I remember and thought about most from the book: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person di

The related quote is the one part I remember and thought about most from the book: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. [...] When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments.